"Wuthering Heights" by Silvia Plath. Deconstruction of the Poem.

The first stanza is about the speaker dying for ‘Beauty’. It seems that he (we can conclude that the speaker is a ‘he’ from the poem’s later mention of ‘Brethren’ and ‘Kinsmen’) must have been loved before and had a proper burial. But just before he gets comfortable or can get ‘Adjusted into the Tomb’ and left alone for too long, he is accompanied by a deceased man who died for ‘Truth’ in a tomb next to him. The theme death is brought in by the words ‘Tomb’ and ‘died’. Dickinson also used the word ‘scarce’ to show the reader that it is uncommon to find someone who believes that it is worth dying for beauty too. In the first stanza, the rhyme scheme ‘ABCB” is present but this rhyme scheme is only found in stanza one. Emily Dickinson capitalised some of the nouns used in her poem. I believe she did this to show that these words carry deep meaningfulness to this poem. She

Sylvia Plath displays many themes in her work; however she has the tendency to conceal and dig her themes, metaphors, and symbols deep in her poetic words, which leaves us readers left to decipher them. Plath is a poet that conveys quite compelling emotions through her work and is both prodigious and petrifying while still gloomy and relieving. Though there are many themes to revisit, the more significant ones evident in her writing will be explored. Mortality, journey, depression, and hope are the key themes that strike the heart of Plath’s poetry and will be further analyzed. Poems such as Blackberrying, Crossing the Water, Departure, Suicide off egg Rock, and Mystic, display a very strong

The first stanza depicts an image of someone letting their mind and heart revel in solitude whilst yearning for tranquility. The sadness in this stanza is reflected on how the personified sky was “wounding” the person through drizzling rain, and massive clouds moving slowly in the sky (“Each cloud a ship without me sailing”).

The third stanza reiterates the suffering of sailors; mentioning that all men feel fear when departing out to sea. He stresses what is left behind, such as “…worldly pleasures, Nothing, only the ocean’s heave;” (Raffel 22). Again, the narrator is painting of picture of sorrowful seclusion.

In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, many implications of motifs are placed within the book. One of the more noticeable motifs Bronte implemented throughout the novel is the cold and wintery weather. The motif use of cold is commonly used to set a theme of death and cruelty. In this novel, Bronte uses the motif of coldness and snow to represent suffering and death. Throughout the novel, Bronte uses this motif to express the theme of suffering throughout the property of Wuthering Heights.

On the third line of the poem repetition is used to create a tone of sadness. The repetition of the words; “despair, damnation, death,” illustrates the monotony of the man’s life in the camp; he is forced to do the same work and endure the same torture every day, this shatters his mental health. The words used in the repetition on the third line also form an alliteration which further contributes to the tone of despair in the first stanza. The alliteration creates strong sounds that pound the reader mimicking the constant blows experienced by the man in Auschwitz. The poem is separated into two stanzas to contrast the sorrow at the beginning of the poem with the joy at the end of the poem. The second line of the second stanza is in a bold font to emphasize the line’s role as a turning point in the poem. Everything before in the first stanza creates a melancholic mood, then everything after the bold line creates a joyous mood. The second line in the second stanza also contains an alliteration; “stones shouting, shattering,” which communicates the line’s role as a turning point. The alliteration sounds very substantial, this notifies the reader of a

Literary devices can strengthen the message in a poem. For example, William Wordsworth uses the literary devices such as simile and personification to emphasize his argument. The line “The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon” displays the relationship with the moon and the tides of the sea (Wordsworth). The personification in this line gives the sea human attributes, so the readers can comprehend how essential nature is to the author. He also uses personification to describe the howling of the winds and how they are now “up gathered like sleeping flowers” (Wordsworth). The simile “like sleeping flowers” allows the reader to analyze the meaning of this comparison (Wordsworth). The word flower has a positive connotation conveying beauty. The word sleep has a marginally negative connotation reflecting inactivity or even death. From this analysis, this simile presents the idea that the beauty of nature is inactive or no longer with us. This inquiry demonstrates the capabilities of literary devices and how

Some of the dark negative emotions Sylvia Plath shares in this poem can make anyone have sympathy on her feelings. Especially, when she writes,

Hyperbole and personification is used to indicate how difficult it can be to come to terms with loss and how alone one can feel. The hyperbolic orders in stanza four to take away the features of space and earth, such as ‘pack up the moon…’, which is impossible, is indicative that the narrator has not yet come to terms with the change. The absence of the objects producing light, such as ‘the stars…’, which are expressed through the visual imagery creates a sense of increasing darkness which is parallel to the absence and loneliness experienced by the narrator. The personification of the aeroplanes in stanza two is an aural declaration of how the narrator is feeling. ‘Moaning’ suggests the pain and agony of which the narrator is experiencing.

In the second stanza, we have the personal pronoun “I” for the first time. Here we have an amazing metaphor that reflects the feelings of the lyric persona. We have the words “dew” and “sunk” which show us how much our lyric persona suffers, and the pronoun “I” just emphasizes his pain. What I’ve also noticed is the word “now” in the 4th line. Our lyric persona hasn’t stopped grieving from the moment they parted. The next 4 lines finally point out to the fact that their love is forbidden. The woman has broken her vows, having an affair with our lyric persona, and whenever he hears her name, he feels ashamed, too.

In the poem Sylvia Plath definitely describe her true feelings about her departed father. At the beginning of her poem she interprets about a child living the unspeakable, dreadful memory of how her father pasted away. Throughout the conversation, the reader founded many emotional feelings of hate towards her father, and how he treated her. Sylvia Plath was afraid of her father. When it was clear that she never communicated, and shield herself towards him in the first line “You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoeing which I have lived like a foot for thirty years, poor and white, barely daring to breathe or Achoo” (Sylvia Plath, 1962). Her father experienced a growth on his toe, and ignored the situation until he passed away cause of the critical condition. It was too late to save his life. In the following passage, “And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue in the waters off beautiful Nauset” interpret how Sylvia reacted when she found out her father’s medical condition that made her very indisposed to her stomach.

Some of the dark negative emotions Sylvia Plath shares in this poem can make anyone have sympathy on her feelings. Especially, when she writes,

The motifs, themes and symbols illustrated in her literary works portray disquieting remembrances, emotional turbulence, a stark sense of remoteness and an unheard voice to combat oppressions. Her autobiographical novel, the ‘Bell Jar’ pertinently encompasses the protagonist’s arduous journey as a delusional woman against the patriarchal society, symbolic of Plath’s solitude and self-mutilation. “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.” Her poem ‘Daddy’ illustrated the mixed emotions she had towards her father, depicting an arch sentiment of betrayal. She used Jews and Nazis as metaphors for their shattered relationship. “In the German tongue, in the Polish town, scraped flat by the roller of wars, wars, wars. But the name of the town is common. My Polack friend.” Drawing from holocaust imagery again, ‘Lady Lazarus’ is figurative of brutality, signifying Plath’s suicidal attempts. Emphasizing on her body parts as separate from the whole; she pricked at the male dominant society’s outlook for women as mere objects. This piece of literature throws light at Plath’s yearning and obsession on the subject of death as she considered it to be an art. “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.” While Plath viewed death as the hostile ultimatum and a coercing ending along with perceiving this natural phenomenon in the literal sense, Emily Dickinson, another established American poet known for gothic elements and dark imagery reflective of her seclusion from the society by choice, examined death as an idealistic magnetism with a pinch of mysticism. For Dickinson, death presented a two dimensional standpoint. It is what humans fear as well as long for their entire life. In certain aspects, it may be symbolic of isolation, while in others it may

In this line the reader is not aware about the thing ,she is talking about.This poem also contains the very elements as given in the other poems associated with race,class gender and death.Mnetal illness has been shown in this poem as in these lines:

As is true of a number of 20th century poets, Sylvia Plath tends to create rhythms and structures all her own. She is typically emphatic in her poetry, and there is a sense of almost a deliberate disregard for traditional form. At the same time, Plath very much relies on a standard component of classic poetry: musicality. If she plays with or ignores meter, she nonetheless creates what may be called a chant in many of her verses, and it is a kind of musicality unique to her. Plath's stanzas are consistently declarative, and often each line has a meter contrasting the next. This in turn is emphasized by shades of anger or unrest in her meaning and imagery. These elements considered, it is then possible to construct an Ars Poetica of the poet that actually defies Ars Poetica. As the following examinations of “Morning Song” and “Daddy” reveal, Sylvia Plath employs poetic forms simultaneously musical and removed from reliance on traditional meter and structure, these forms reflect the unique quality of each poem, and the only Ars Poetica to be defined in her work is that of non-conformity.